Selected Works
CONTENT 00
Curriculum Vitae
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Designing for Immigration: User Customized Housing in Downtown Sudbury
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GoSudbury: Cityforming
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Copper Cliff Early Learning Centre
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Sudbury Community Art Gallery
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Other Work
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Hello! I am a fourth year architecture student pursuing a Bachelor of Architectural Studies with a Minor in Motion Picture Arts at Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture. The following is a curated selection of architecture and design based work that reflects my passion for creative expression and meaningful, exciting design.
LIAM BURSEY
lbursey@laurentian.ca +1 (705) 920-9210 Toronto, Ontario
Architecture Student EDUCATION
2017-2021
MCEWEN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE - Laurentian University • •
2013-2017
LO-ELLEN PARK SECONDARY SCHOOL - Sudbury, Ontario • •
EXPERIENCE
2019
June-August
May-August
May
May-August
July-August
2020
Awarded to a 4th year student based on academic merit and work in design studio
Blane and Lise Nicholls Design Fund •
SKILLS
Observing and learning from some of Sudbury’s most established architects, attending meetings, printing and assembling construction documents and drawings, and archiving work.
Build North Construction Inc. Architecture Scholarship Annual Award •
2018
Interior wall assembly and finishing in Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institution, an Anishinaabe owned and operated post-secondary school on Mnidoo Mnising Manitoulin Island. In Ojibwe, Kenjgewin Teg means Place of Knowledge.
CASTELLAN, JAMES & PARTNERS ARCHITECTS - Sudbury, Ontario Summer Student •
ACHIEVEMENTS
Renovating a 14th century barn into a studio, building a traditional fenced garden gate and clearing debris from a 14th century half-timber home.
NOMAR CONTRACTING AND FINISHING, INC. - M’Chigeeng First Nation, Ontario General Carpenter & Labourer •
2015
A streetwear passion project designed to promote the equality and unity of all humankind, creating a logo, brand identity and promotional content.
MANFRED WEIHMANN ARCHITECT - Dinkelsbuhl, Germany Builder - European Restoration Team •
2018
Working with the production designer to assemble and decorate sets on-location in a design team environment, both behind the scenes and while filming.
HUMAN ODYSSEY APPAREL - Sudbury, Ontario Co-Owner and Designer •
2019
Specialist High Skills Major in Construction and Architecture Knight of Honour academic achievement awards in English, Design Technology, Environmental Science, Healthy Living, Kinesiology, Visual Art
GET ‘ER DONE PRODUCTIONS - Sudbury, Ontario Set Dresser - Letterkenny •
2019
Bachelor of Architectural Studies Minor in Motion Picture Arts
Awarded to a student based on excellence in the 1st year design-build project
2017
Marasco Creative Design Award of Excellence
2017
Laurentian University Leadership Award
2017
Award of Excellence: Technological Design & Visual Arts
ANALOG Hand drafting Carpentry Model making
DIGITAL Laser Cutting Photography Filmography
Rhino 3D Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects
Vray Revit Grasshopper
01 DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION USER CUSTOMIZED HOUSING IN GREATER SUDBURY A mixed-use housing complex designing in collaboration with Reese Babcock ARCH 4505 2020
This mixed-use housing complex will activate the urban life & culture in Downtown Sudbury through a framework of public space that encompases user customization and live-work synergies. Sudbury’s Downtown is missing two key demographics that are necessary to creating a safe, active, and lively community. There is a severe lack of the “missing middle” with very few families and young adults calling the area home. As a result our conceptual direction became an act of filling this void. Immigration has been, and will continue to be, a crucial factor in Sudbury’s growth as a healthy, diverse city, and we believe it is the key to filling this void in Sudbury’s future. By creating co-op housing for immigrants and student housing for international as well as local students, we can re-awaken urban life in the Downtown. By offering user customization for residents and dynamic livework synergies that bring new business and culture to the downtown, we can formulate an environment where the user will have more control in their way of living.
Urban Park as connector U PA RBA RK N
STUDIOS
STUDENT HOUSING
MARKET
Br i d g i ng p u b l i c and p ri vate
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C o nnect i o n to t he c i t y
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Transfering circulation to create internal public space
Circulation defines massing
Carving blocks to facilitate access & solar orientation
Defining public and private park space
Inserting public program
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
PARKING
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URBAN D ESI GN SI T E PLA N
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Market Outlets
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Brick Material Narrative
Creative Studio Outlets
In addition to finding that Sudbury’s Downtown lacks diversity, families, and young adults, we also found that it was severely lacking a public realm. If this public realm can be returned it would bring new users, new cultures, and age groups to the downtown, and would allow them to transform it into a mosaic of influences that will formulate a strong community. Our site analysis led us to using Old City Hall Lane as a key connector of urban life throughout the city - a through-way of public space that would bring life back to Sudbury’s Downtown. Our resultant urban design encompassed the full length of this laneway. Activity is directed to this crucial axis through a material narrative of a brick walkway, and all pathways lead to the housing complex, orienting it as the heart of the city.
Urban Park Outlets
2020 DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
Extending the Alleyway
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SOUTHWEST SITE AXONOMETRIC
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Student housing entrance
Ground floor parking/ hybrid skatepark
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Co-op housing entrance
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Market
Creative Studios (workshop)
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
NORTH ELEVATION
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2020
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
Creative Studio (artist space)
Urban Park
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Market
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Sports court/ outdoor rink
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
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2020
DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
RESIDENTIAL LEVEL 1
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STUDENT HOUSING
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CO-OP HOUSING
2020 DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
To welcome immigrants to Sudbury we strove to provide housing that would allow users to be the creators of their own narrative. To design a one-size-fits-all solution would be to force this diverse group of people into a specific way of life. Instead, we wanted to create residences and public spaces that are open and interpretable in many ways to allow users to create their own way of life within its framework.
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SITE SECTION
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Urban Park
Hybrid Parking - Skatepark
Workspace
Community Market
Public Display
Grocery Market
Pop-Up Vendor Market
Event Market
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Ground Foor Parking
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The public programming reinforces our concept of user customization. The market and creative studios are designed to work in tandem with the housing, providing space for students and immigrants to create and sell products, crafts, art, produce, traditional cuisine, etc. These live-work synergies allow users to customize their lives based on their skills and interests. Within the units, user customization is enacted through a framework of boundary walls with an internal structural wood grid that can be adhered to (or broken) depending on the user’s needs. A material hierarchy of permanent brick exterior walls, semi-permanent lightframe wood interior walls, and impermanent malleable curved walls gives further degrees of customization, allowing users to change their space over time to adapt to their needs.
STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC
Shear wall and concrete slab
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Post and beam grid
DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Unit floor infill
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Glulam post and beam assembly with CLT capital
Joist ceiling and systems installation
Floor beams and CLT infill
Column and sheer wall installation
Light Frame Stud Walls
Brick Cladding Plywood
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Steel Cables for Sheer Bracing in Cavity
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Adaptable light curved walls
USER CUSTOMIZATION IN UNITS
Final assembly
Brick wall as thermal mass
Sun spaces as thermal buffer
Circulation as thermal buffer
Operable screens allow sun exposure
2020
PASSIVE SECTION - WINTER
Operable screens block sun
Sliding glazing for operability in sun spaces
Sliding glazing for operability in circulation
DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
Cross ventilation
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PASSIVE SECTION - SUMMER
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Larch Street Entrance
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Urban Park in Winter
Above Ground Parking Hybridizing as a Skatepark
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DESIGNING FOR IMMIGRATION
2020
Market
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02 GOSUDBURY CITYFORMING Designing a new transportation system for Sudbury in collaboartion with Reese Babcock, Jonathan Kabumbe, and Catherine Daigle Sudbury2050: Urban Design Ideas Competition, 2020
GoSudbury Animated Promo Video
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02. A disconnect in the city
03. Connecting the Constellations
Expand the Cityformation
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GOSUDBURY
2020
Greater Sudbury is often characterized by the vast area encompassed by the city limits. As a result of this urban sprawl, its various constellation towns and neighbourhoods are inevitably disconnected, and automobiles are a necessity for transportation throughout the city. Not only is this dependence harmful for the environment, but it creates transportation limitations that prevent many people from experiencing all that Sudbury has to offer. GoSudbury is a vision for the transportation system in Sudbury that would re-contextualize it as a cohesive, poly-nucleated city. This intervention will create a centralized downtown rather than a bypassed relic. It will also create easy connections to and from Sudbury’s constellation communities, more desirable streets designed for walkability, a city-centric tourism sector, and unique transportation opportunities only found in Sudbury.
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GOSUDBURY
2020
BELL PARK STATION
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A streetcar system connects the three hubs that constitute the core of the city: Downtown, The South End, and New Sudbury. A light rail system connects Sudbury’s constellation communities, alleviating the transportation load on automobiles for commuting, and increasing tourism from Downtown to the towns and vice-versa. This light rail network acts as the main arteries of the city, with the streetcar and existing GOVA bus routes branching off to provide secondary transportation. At the most finite level, transportation options unique to Sudbury - such as paddling and skating on the lakes and hiking or biking through the many trail networks - are expanded upon to work in tandem with the new system. A key theme of the project involves the diversification of transport to connect the periphery of the city to the downtown core. By changing the way people reach their destination, the city can be experienced in different ways, while also strengthening local economies and providing various health benefits as well as a solution to the lack of parking spaces in the downtown core.
2020 GOSUDBURY LIAM BURSEY
Unique forms of transportation specific to Sudbury
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GOSUDBURY
2020
DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION HUB
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GoSudbury capitalizes on existing infrastructure, such as the light rail system that utilizes existing rail lines, anticipating the relocation of the current downtown rail yard. New stations use adaptive reuse strategies on existing buildings along with terraforming techniques to create hybrid buildings in an approach we’ve coined “Cityforming.” Transportation within these areas becomes much more fluid, and a new Downtown station conglomerates all transportation systems to establish Downtown as the central heart of a new, inter-connected Sudbury. Each subsequent station can be interpreted as an extension of Downtown, offering amenities such as library pop-up shops, local cafes, etc. By letting people access downtown Sudbury without a car, the vast amount of parking space could be repurposed as places for commercial activity, community events, or even new developments.
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Diverse transportation options
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GOSUDBURY
2020
ROTARY PARK STATION
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Due to Sudbury’s industrial economic factors and a “spread-out” development mentality, where the abundance of space allows for outward expansion. This unique context of many individualized towns forming a greater city offers multifold advantages and challenges. One advantage is the unique quality of each town, where each community offers experiences and amenities exclusive to that neighbourhood. Along our transportation network are opportunities to explore the unique nature experiences that Sudbury has to offer, such as stops that access parks, trails, and lakes. These experiences already exist in Sudbury but they are often overlooked or underused by residents due to the transportation barrier that inhibits their access.
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Streamlined transportation routes
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03 COPPER CLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE USING THE PAST TO DESIGN THE FUTURE A mixed-use daycare complex that promotes learning through exploration ARCH 3505 2019
Little Italy
The central unifying piazza
Shanty Town
English Town
Community Market
When researching the rich history of Copper Cliff, the recurring theme of close-knit communities arose. Historically, Copper Cliff can be viewed as the amalgamation of three distinct neighbourhoods: Little Italy, Shantytown, and English Town. Each of these communities functioned independently as well as collectively to form the unique character of Copper Cliff. The concept of a disjointed yet unified community was manifested with each daycare suite acting as a separate building. These communities are also reflected in playhouses within each suite that mimic each neighbourhood’s material palette. The gable roof structure of each suite operates as an inhabitable trellis, housing vining plants such as coral honeysuckles, climbing hydrangeas, and concord grapes. The suites surround a central courtyard, or piazza, that operates as the main communal outdoor space. This is reminiscent of Little Italy’s traditional hill-town typology; the entrances to the piazza are pinch-points between buildings to simulate the feeling of meandering through this neighbourhood.
PRESCHOOL DAYCARE SUITE SECTION
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COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
2019
A multi-use market space is situated across from the daycare suites. Currently, Copper Cliff lacks any grocery locations, yet community markets were once prominent in each of its neighbourhoods. This multi-use space will revive that community based experience: it will function as a farmers market in the summer, a crafts market in the winter, and as artisan workshops year round. The building relies on sustainable active and passive systems such as cross-ventilation, photovoltaic panels, water collection and filtration, and a ground-source heat exchanger. With this in mind, the Early Learning Centre will reflect Copper Cliff both in its present and historical conditions while representing the possibility for a future sustainable community.
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Green roof and vining plants
Roof trellis structure
Windscreen trellis structure
CLT deck roof
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COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
2019
CLT walls
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Slab foundations and flooring
SITE PLAN
Reception
Lunch room Infant Suite
Toddler Suite
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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Preschool Suite
COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
2019
Multi-use community market
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TODDLER SUITE - SOUTH
2019
TODDLER SUITE - NORTH
Quiet room
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COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
Storage
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Toy was area
Play area
Interior play structure
INTERIOR PLAY STRUCTURE DETAIL
TODDLER SUITE PLAN
COPPERCLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE
Preschool Suite Interior
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2019
Rooftop Play Area
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04 SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY USING THE PAST TO DESIGN THE FUTURE Experiencing the city through the lens of community art ARCH 3515 2020
PERSPECTIVE SECTION
SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY LIAM BURSEY
By establishing a connection between the community and the site’s history, the gallery will become a key proponent of Sudbury’s downtown culture. It will become an interstitial blending space between the two worlds of the vibrant downtown and the historic industrial rail yard. Glazed surfaces are used extensively with the intent that the community will be involved in the process of art-making in the building. Visitors will be able to use semi-permanent paint on the glass. These community-painted moments occur in the educational programing as well as at views on either side of the building. As a result, when looking through the painted glass visitors will experience the dichotomy of these two worlds of Downtown Sudbury through the lens of community-created art.
2020
The key intention of this project was to address the disconnect between the community of Downtown Sudbury and its respective urban fabric. The site has the unique context of neighbouring Sudbury’s historic downtown railyard - the location of the original Canadian Pacific Railway junction that enacted the birth of the city. Additionally, this was an adaptive reuse project wherein the building itself was an urban artifact of Sudbury’s history. To the east the site neighbours the rest of Downtown Sudbury, which is quickly becoming recognized for its vibrancy and culture, presupposed by an increased interest in murals, graffiti and street art.
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Front-of-house
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
PHYSICAL MASSING MODEL
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PROGRAM MASSING MODEL
Back-of-house
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CONCEPTUAL SITE MAPPING
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
EAST ELEVATION
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WEST ELEVATION
Art Gallery Interior
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
Site Birds-Eye Perspective
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Staff Entrance
Loading
Artist Studio 1
Store
Community art courtyard
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
Permenent gallery
Sculpture and temporary storage
Offices Artist Studio 2
Temporary gallery
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN
Curatorial room Oil paint and paper storage
Francophone gallery Staff room Indigenous gallery
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Cafe
Charmichael Gallery
Community Art Roofscape
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
ROOF PLAN
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
GALLERY CROSS SECTION
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Rooftop Cafe Interior
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Community Art Roofscape
Community Art Courtyard at Night
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SUDBURY COMMUNITY ART GALLERY
2020
Circulation Stairway
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05 OTHER WORK PASSIONS & PURSUITS
CRAFT Making things with my hands
COPPER CLIFF EARLY LEARNING CENTRE MODEL
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OTHER WORK
2020
RAMSEY LAKE ICE STATION
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CASA DAS MUDAS CENTRO DAS ARTES SECTION MODEL
BAHA’I TEMPLE OF SOUTH AMERICAN DETAIL MODEL
CONCEPTUAL SMALL ART GALLERY MODEL
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OTHER WORK
2020
PLAYHOUSE
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INSTALLATION ART Creating experiences
DIGITAL PALIMPSEST - FOR MCEWEN NUIT BLANCHE 2020
ANIMATION
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OTHER WORK
2020
Playing with character & narrative
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GOSUDBURY PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
FASHION DESIGN & FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
HUMAN ODYSSEY
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OTHER WORK
2020
Wearable architecture
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GRAPHIC DESIGN Visual communication
BIZZ LOC ALBUM COVER Bodybagz by da Dozenz Vol.1, 2020
LO-ELLEN PARK NORDIC SKIING Logo design and ideation
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OTHER WORK
2020
FILM Sculpting in time
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THE FIGURE, 2020
The unshakable feeling of someone watching you
2020 OTHER WORK
ROCKS AND WATER, 2019
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A flim about life, people, and the landscape in Sudbury, ON
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